Say Yes - Do No

A site for AI resistance tactics, reclaiming agency and organising for better technology.

“They all say ‘yes’, but they do ‘no’. That has to be it. There’s no other way to explain these figures. If they would do ‘yes’, the figures would have improved by now. [sigh] It would be easier if they would just say ‘no’. Then you could have a conversation about it [staring blankly].” 

(Anon.)

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Monday Resistance Update #5

Bit of a lightweight contribution this week as I've been buried in paper writing recently (hopefully coming soon!) and not paid much attention to what's going on around the place. More next time no doubt... Resistance - Humanising Musk and 'The Zuck' Pedestrian crossings in California have been hacked to give out...
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(Not Quite) Monday Resistance Update #3

Having been off for the last week or so on my holiday's I've missed a couple of these so figured a Thursday catch-up would be good. Will be back on schedule next week. -- Event - Low-Tech, Luddism and Liberation: reclaiming technology for the collective good (Latvia) First off an excellent looking, week long summer...
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Anti-AI Anthology Submission Guidelines

Anti-AI Anthology This upcoming collection of prose, poetry and visual art is intended to present new narratives and experiences which challenge both the inevitability and the value of Artificial Intelligence as we’re currently (and potentially) seeing it mobilised. Unrepentantly anti-AI - we’re looking to represent...
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Power Tools of AI Zine - Issue 2

Just a quick heads up about the new edition of the Power Tools of AI Zine that's just been released. Edited by the excellent Bart Fish you can find it over here. Digital copy is free but if you've got a couple of quid spare I definitely recommend the hard copy - it comes with stickers and who doesn't like those? As an...
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Pull the Plug/Pause AI Protest in London Thoughts

Originally just a LinkedIn post but copied here for the curious... I attended the 'Pull the Plug' march earlier. aligned with Pause AI it was a mini march to chant and hear speeches outside of London's tech offices.It was an interesting one. A few hundred people out for it, wide range of positions I suspect, but the...
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Bits of Resistance

Just a couple of bits that I've caught recently around tech resistance... Nearby Glasses A new app that uses Bluetooth identifiers to detect Meta glasses and the like in your immediate vicinity. How effective it is I can't say but the intent is definitely positive. How you react if you do detect Meta glasses being used...
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Shame, Shame, Shame... AI & Shame as Resistance Tactic

"Well it's easy to mock... fun too..." Click on pretty much any social media post about AI and the two things you're almost guaranteed to find are a: someone making as completely unsubstantiated claim about productivity, creativity or AGI and b: someone making fun of them for it. Where there's AI hype, there's AI...
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Reading List

Just came across this extensive reading list curated by Dagmar Monett - arch AI critic amongst other things. I haven't read all of them but looking at those I have it definitely looks like something worth exploring. Also makes me wonder what AI critical book would stand out as the thing to recommend to someone just...
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Say Yes - Do No

I'm launching this as a bit of a resource, a bit of an archive, a bit of a jumping off point... We're currently caught up in a seeming tidal wave of technological inevitability where those innovations big tech considers desirable are supposed to become essential for the rest of us. I don't think that has to be the case....
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